Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
Description
6 images. Long Beach fire boat launching, May 4 1954. Mrs. Francis Reider Francis Reider (president of Long Beach Harbor board) Frank Sandeman (fire chief) Rusty Fellows (president of Fellows and Stewart shipyard) Mrs. Dorothy Frazier Mrs. Eloi Amar Mrs. Frank Sandeman. Supplementary material reads: "Gershon. City desk. Illus. Fireboat launching. Nos 1-2 -- (posed) Mrs. Francis Reider ready to crack bottle of Champagne on Long Beach's new fireboat. Holding roses is her husband, Francis Redder, president Long Beach Harbor Board, and Fire Chief Frank Sandeman (tall) and Rusty Fellows, president of Fellows and Steward shipyard. No 3 -- Actual cracking. Mrs. Reider gives hefty swing and bottle smashes against side of new Long Beach fireboat. Back of her is daughter Mrs. Dorothy Frazier, Mrs. Eloi Amar, Mrs. Frank Sandeman, Fire Chief Frank Sandeman, Rusty Fellows".
Type
image
Format
6 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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